The Unanswered Questions of Vladimir Putin

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Putin evokes quite rightly this sort of disfactor of the 1917 revolution. He's saying this is how it went after the First World War. What happens next? Pragosian is not arrested. The charges are effectively dropped. Moscow, which has been put on security alert and the counter terrorist alert suddenly cancels it. Putin is nowhere to be seen again. So, in my mind, we're actually in a pause in a sort of hiatus, if you like. But for the moment anyway, it would appear that Mr. Putin looks pretty weak.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”, leads the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. He had lambasted Russia’s military leaders for months, but the mutiny he began over the weekend lasted less than a day. Nevertheless it is a sharp blow to President Vladimir Putin’s leadership—and may prove to be a boon for Ukraine’s counter-offensive.

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